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Welcome

Welcome and thanks for visiting. I needed an outlet, I started a blog way back in 2012 but didn't stick with it. I pulled the content into this blog as some seed content, so my first post is from 2012, it also just posted. I needed a place to rant on occasion, be proud on occasion, be sad on occasion. I hope you find the content compelling. I will try to make you think, think differently, and look at life a bit differently. I will try not to be cliche, but it's gonna happen.

Digital Transformation / Personal Transformation

Leveraging technology advances, to improve business outcomes.  This can work in your life as well, leverage new technology and new thinking to transform your life.  Don't get caught up in how things used to be, stop looking in the rearview and look through the windshield. If you constantly look to the past you will become stuck there and passed by in life.  One of the hardest things to do in life is change.  Change is hard, but we all need to embrace it.  You can complain about how things used to be, cry about why it used to be so much better.  There is nothing wrong with reminiscing about the past but make sure to live in the future.

Think for yourself

Think for yourself! Don't just regurgitate what the talking heads tell you.   Think for yourself! Don't listen to the hatred spewed out on social media. Think for yourself! Have an original thought, all on your own. Think for yourself! Be true to who you are, don't live in the box someone puts you in. “Remember this. The world wants to assign you a role. And once you accept that role, you’re doomed.”  Robert Greene

Preamble to the Constitution

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (as written, and spelled)

Don't let this happen to you.

Lost Jeeper We lost a fellow Jeeper this week.  Here in California a man and his girlfriend left the Sacramento Area traveling over Hwy 50 to Gardnerville, Nev.  It was a collection of simple decisions that when combined put them in a deadly position.  This is not meant to criticize him for what happened but for all of us to learn from. I am in no way related or in law enforcement so what I know I know from the news reports.  The couple left Citrus Heights on Thursday, November 30 but did not arrive at their destination.  According to family members, they had "packed clothes for snow".  A search from the air was called off due to weather.  The storm that weekend made conditions worse with heavy snow and rain. They were driving his new to him 1989 Jeep Grand Cherokee.  When they got to Hope Valley, at about 8,000ft in the Sierra, they decided to do a little four-wheeling in the show.  They proceeded down Burnside Road, a dirt road off Highway ...

Who Said This

Who said this? Can anyone tell me who said this? Now sure you can Google it and find out, but without the help of our friend Google does anyone know who said these words? "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies." These words are true, and a sad comment on what this country has become. The even sadder thing is that they were said by then Senator Barack Obama in 2006. The one who called W unpatriotic for spending 4T in 8 years when he spent more then 8T less than 4 year. When today his "balanced" approach to managing the fiscal cliff is a 4-1 Tax increase to spending cut proposal. A proposal that also happens to push off the promised tax cuts to offset the last debt ceiling increase deal, and a ...